raten
German, verb
raten is spelled R-A-T-E-N (5 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written German, the 4,037th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Raten is a German verb meaning “to advise; to recommend” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Raten is a different word: “plural of Rate”. On this page, Räten is a different word: “dative plural of Rat”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen Rat geben/erteilen, empfehlen”.
What does raten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to advise; to recommend
jemandem etwas zu tun raten
- 2
to guess
Das rätst du nie.
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Rate
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Rat
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen Rat geben/erteilen, empfehlen 2. versuchen zu erraten
verb: 1. einem vorliegenden Schema entsprechend beurteilen 2. die Kreditwürdigkeit beurteilen, einen Kredit bewerten
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of raten
- rät present singular third-person
- riet past
- geraten participle past
- haben auxiliary
- 7 strong
- ratend participle present
- rate first-person indicative present
- rätst indicative present second-person
- ratet indicative plural present
- ratest second-person singular subjunctive
- rieten first-person indicative plural
- riete first-person formal rare
- rietest indicative preterite second-person
- rietst indicative preterite second-person
- rietet indicative plural preterite
- rat imperative second-person singular
- rate! imperative singular
- rat! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to raten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is raten in German?
raten appears 19 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).